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This is the scam. They create a comment on an issue:
And then @ mention many different usernames:
😠 I've reported both incidences but I'm sure I'll get another email "requesting more information". The timing of this attack is smart as I can imagine people are still away. |
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Hi @bn-l , 👋🏻 We really appreciate you flagging this and we're sorry about the trouble caused. The best route to get this to the proper GitHub team is to use our abuse reporting tools which I see you seem to have already done. Here's all the info:
You can report behavior and content that violates community guidelines and terms. We are going to close this post, but for this and any future incidents, please refer to the links above. Thank you! |
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There's no way to report - PR, comment in PR. There also no shortcut to report notification without clicking on it |
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100% a dark pattern to reduce support costs |
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ironically authentic comments like these would also get flagged as spam and no doubt that would be the doings of those malicious crypto reward spam accounts |
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Hi @bn-l , 👋🏻 We really appreciate you flagging this and we're sorry about the trouble caused. The best route to get this to the proper GitHub team is to use our abuse reporting tools which I see you seem to have already done. Here's all the info:
You can report behavior and content that violates community guidelines and terms. We are going to close this post, but for this and any future incidents, please refer to the links above.
Thank you!